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This book explores how elite commitments to cooperate with international organizations can be supplanted by domestic political constraints that materialize in the "post-commitment" ratification process. Eight original case studies of German foreign policy decisions toward European Community and NATO agreements are examined.

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Using a model of foreign policy change that sees international crises as catalysts for change and domestic political conditions as the determinants for the scope and pace of change, Lantis (international relations and political science, The College of Wooster) explores German foreign policy restruct